442 THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON edged red; petals longer, ovate, green, stamens 11 (12 or 15); filaments slender, bases adnate to the pistillode, longer than the petals, white; anthers small, oblong; pistillode thick; styles 3, base thickened and narrowed upwards, shorter than the stamens. Female flowers: sepals broadly rounded; petals ovate, much larger, green; ovary globose; stigmas short, thick, recurved, brown. Drupe smalJ, obovoid, |- inch long by about -J- inch in diameter, black, base scarlet; pulp thin. Seed ovoid, fa inch long; albumen equable; embryo basilar. HABITAT.—Singapore: Kranji, Jurong; Pahang: near Pekan; Selangor: Klang; Perak: Teluk Anson (ex Ridley); Borneo. Cultivated in India. NOTE.—C* lakka is very near the next species, C. r&ndah, which has an ovoid fruit abruptly constricted and a globose seed. 2. Cyrtostachys rendafc Bl. Humph. II, 101, t. 120; Kth. Bnum. PL III, 641 ; Sheff. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. I, 126, 159; H. Wendl. in Kerch. Palm. 242; List of Palms in Kew Rep. 1882 (1884) 55.— Bentinckia renda Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 316; Miquel PL Ind. Bat. Ill, 42 et Prodr. Fl. Sum. 254; Walp. Ann. Ill, 467, V, 812.— Areca erythropoda Miq. in Joxirn bot. iieerl. I, 6, et Prodr. PL Sum. 253, et 589.—Ptychospemna coccinea Hort. Lugd. Bat, Cat, pi. hort bot. Bog. (1866) 69; Miq. De Palm. 24.— Pinanga ptirp-urea Hort. Bog. in Miq. Prodr. FL Sum. 590. NAMES.—Pinang rimbou, Pinang rendah or rende, Pinang Lempianw (Sumatra); Sealing-wajs: Palm (English); Rotstaemmige Renda-Palme (jGerman.). DESCRIPTION.—A gregarious palm. Stem above 30 feet high, graceful, smooth, annulate. Leaves 5-6 feet long (excluding the leaf-sheath), decreseent-pinnatisect j petiole about 6 inches long. Segments narrow-lanceolate, the longer ones 28 inches long, 2 inches broad, acuminate; the terminal segments shorter, bidentate or shortly bifid, or subobtuse. Spathes: 2 complete, 2 incomplete. Flowers crowded, 1 female between 2 males. Stamens 12-15. Ovary unilocular, 1-ovuled, sometimes the rudiments of a second or third loculus are found; ovule pendulous from the tip of the cell; stigmas subulate, Fxaix ovoid, at the apex abruptly apiculate, -§ inch long, £ inch broad. Seed round, about -J- inch in diameter, adherent to the endocarp; hilum apical; albumen equable; embryo basilar.